desempeñaban
[d̪esẽmpeˈɲaβ̞ãn]
The verdict
“desempeñaban” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #66,857 among 4,885 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,857
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de desempeñar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-desempenaban · desempeñaban · Spanish
desempeñaban · rank #66,857 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,857
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH descripto
Nearest frequency peer: descripto (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “desempeñaban”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- descarrilar
descarrilar
33,147 corpus weight
- describimos
describimos
33,146 corpus weight
- descripto
descripto
33,145 corpus weight
- desempeñaban
desempeñaban
33,144 corpus weight
- deslumbrado
deslumbrado
33,142 corpus weight
- despedirá
despedirá
33,141 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “desempeñaban” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | desempeñaban |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪esẽmpeˈɲaβ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #66,857 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “desempeñaban” en español
Rare enough to double-check
desempeñaban is uncommon Spanish at frequency #66,857 among 4,885 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [d̪esẽmpeˈɲaβ̞ãn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de desempeñar.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for desempeñaban, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is desempeñaban, spelled D-E-S-E-M-P-E-Ñ-A-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de desempeñar.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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